Top 100 Willie Nelson Quotes
#1. Be gentle with your words - you can't take them back.
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#2. God has blessed you richly, so get down on your knees and thank him. Don't forget the less fortunate or God will personally kick your ass. I'd love to do it for him, but I can't be everywhere.
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#4. You can't make a record if you ain't got nothin' to say.
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#6. I am not a pig farmer. The pigs had a great time, but I didn't make any money.
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#8. Small family farmers are the only things that can save us because they take care of the land. Future farmers of America are going to be our heroes. Same with biodiesel, either way we need small family saustainable and organic farmers.
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#9. You could make any song sound creepy if you wanted. It's all about the inflection.
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#10. It doesn't hurt to feel sad from time to time.
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#11. Sadly, there are more wild horses in holding pens than in the wild.
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#12. When I was about 12, I had my first paying gig - 8 dollars to play rhythm guitar in a polka band. Pretty soon, I ended up playing in all the bars within driving distance of Abbott, Texas.
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#13. I guess if you can't sing, you better have a style!
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#14. I see this [biodiesel] as a way for the farmer to grow fuel and food and put him back in business again
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#15. I never pretended to have a great voice. It works and I can carry a tune. If you have a good song, that's about all that's required.
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#17. You can't hang a man for shooting a woman who was trying to steel his horse.
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#18. Be here. Be present. Wherever you are, be there.
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#19. I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is an herb and a flower. God put it here. If He put it here and He wants it to grow, what gives the government the right to say that God is wrong?
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#21. I live one day at a time, one day at a time. Yesterday's gone and tomorrow is blind, so I live one day at a time.
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#22. Well the country songs themselves are three-chord stories, ballads which are mostly sad. If you are already feeling sorry for yourself when you listen to them they will take you to an even sadder place.
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#23. Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.
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#24. There are only so many notes so there must be only so many melodies.
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#25. If you start out looking at somebody, wondering whether he's good or bad, I think you're starting out in the wrong direction. I think we're all good and we're all bad.
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#26. I think Ray Charles did as much as anybody when he did his country music album. Ray Charles broke down borders and showed the similarities between country music and R&B.
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#27. I'm a little prejudiced when it comes to horses. I have always loved them.
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#28. I like to stick with music I know I can play. I love classical, but I don't think I could ever play it. I'm just not qualified.
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#30. I been a long time leaving but I'm going to be a long time gone.
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#31. I got along without you before I met you and I'll get along without you a long time after you're gone.
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#32. I started writing cheating songs when I was too young to have any idea what I was writing about - broken hearts and things like that. I just think it was something I already knew, something I had experienced in another lifetime.
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#33. When songs fall from the sky, all I can do is catch them before they hit the ground.
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#34. If you go to a magic show, you don't want to see logic.
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#35. Horses were a way to travel to get to where we are today, and it is our job to protect them.
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#36. You will never find happiness until you stop looking for it.
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#37. If you got the money honey I got the time and when you run out of money honey I run out of time.
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#38. I don't remember Moses writing, 'Thou shalt not kill.. unless you think you have a good reason.
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#39. As adults we try to relax from the never-ending quest for reason and order by drinking a little whiskey or smoking whatever works for us, but the wisdom isn't in the whiskey or the smoke. The wisdom is in the moments when the madness slips away and we remember the basics.
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#40. I like myself better when I'm writing regularly.
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#41. Gay or straight? So what? It doesn't matter to me. We have to be concerned about other people regardless.
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#42. Sometimes there is a 36-piece orchestra going off in my stomach.
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#43. All I do is play music and golf - which one do you want me to give up?
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#44. We are the same. There is no difference anywhere in the world. People are people. They laugh, cry, feel, and love, and music seems to be the commons denomination that brings us all together. Music cuts through all boundaries and goes right to the soul.
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#45. Americans don't eat horses. They are not raised as food animals and they are treated with chemicals that render them unsafe for consumption. The regulations needed to change their status to "food animals" would cripple every aspect of the horse industry as we know it. Plus, it would be wrong.
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#46. Freedom is control in your own life. I have more control now than in the past, and I'm learning the value of saying no. That's very important.
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#47. Every now and then I'll think of something to put back in the show. I just kind of play it off the top of my head. If I do it that way it keeps it kinda fresh.
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#48. Be careful what you dream: soon your dreams will be dreaming you.
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#49. Like anything else, you can use the Internet for good or ill. You can get out of it what you want to. There's no evil about it. The way I see it, it's a liberation.
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#50. I was born in Abbott, Texas, a little small town in central Texas, and I was raised by my grandparents. And my parents divorced when I was six months old, and my grandparents raised me.
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#51. There's a great enthusiasm for good country music all over the world.
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#52. I think the best exercise that I do is singing for an hour-and-a-half out on the stage, because, yes, I use the lung, the biggest muscle in your body.
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#53. Where I grew up, Bob Wills and his western swing was very popular. And western swing is not that far from jazz and blues.
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#54. I take it not only a day at a time, but a moment at a time, and keep it at that pace. If you can be happy right now, then you'll always be happy, because it's always in the now
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#55. There is only one map to the journey of life and it lives within your heart
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#56. How would you like to bite that in the ass, develop lock jaw and be dragged to death?
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#57. Nothing lasts forever, but old Fords and a natural stone.
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#58. Memories remind us that every moment of our lives, even the most tragic, have contributed to our strength. We've gotten through. We're still here.
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#59. And when I die, put it on my stone. God said, Sucker get your bad ass home. I wasn't Superman. I wasn't Superman
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#60. The biggest killer on the planet is stress and I still think the best medicine is and always has been cannabis.
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#62. I was influenced a lot by those around me - there was a lot of singing that went on in the cotton fields.
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#63. More and more people are finding out the benefits of it - hemp and marijuana. The more they delve into it and research it, the more they realize, Hey wait a minute, we should give this another look.
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#64. Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play.
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#66. Do Right Woman, Do Right Man. I sang it nice and slow
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#67. I'm from Texas, and one of the reasons I like Texas is because there's no one in control.
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#68. The first time I got onstage was when I was about 5 years old. It was at a church social, and I had a poem to recite.
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#71. You want to be a good parent and you want to be a friend, and it's hard to be both. You have to balance it as well as you can.
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#73. Air you breathe is bad for your lungs so you've got to careful and don't overdue any bad air. Too much pot, too much anything is not good. Your lung is a piece of flesh, a piece of bone. You can injure it.
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#74. My doctor tells me I should start slowing it down - but there are more old drunks than there are old doctors so let's all have another round.
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#76. In the twilight glow I see her, blue eyes crying in the rain. As we kissed goodbye and parted, I knew we'd never meet again.
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#77. Rather than trying to put an end to Eminem or some other rapper, politicians should think about why they're rapping. It's easier to try to censor some kid who's swearing about poverty than it is to stop the poverty.
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#79. There are just certain sounds, music, that sort of you know people are going to like it.
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#80. I'm not prejudiced in any way that I can think of. That's just not the guy I am.
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#82. There's so many things going on in the world, Babies dying. Mothers crying. How much oil is one human life worth. And what ever happened to peace on earth.
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#83. Heard you told him that you'd love him 'til the end of time. Now that's the same thing that you told me.
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#84. Everything about Sinatra was good. He had the ability to pick great songs, and once Sinatra had sung them, that pretty much was it. He pretty much put his stamp on everything.
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#85. Don't try to change anybody. And they should let you be yourself, 'You loved me when you met me, so let's keep going!'
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#86. I wanted to connect all people who are thinking about peace on Earth.
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#87. A lot of guns there's no need for civilians to own those those are for military
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#88. Just take what you need from the ladies and leave them.
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#89. Indecision may or may not be our biggest problem.
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#90. I got in at 2 with a 10, and woke up at 10 with a 2.
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#91. When you're singing, you're using extra muscles, and it requires a lot of exercise and breathing. You can't do that if you're a sissy. If I have any fitness advice for people, I'd tell them to sing more. It's good therapy, too.
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#92. I think most people realize that our problems are our government, not me and you individually, except that we can - must have some sort of responsibility, because they're in there and they were elected, so we have to defend ourselves on those lines.
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#93. When you hear me, you know it's me, regardless of the song.
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#94. You'll never get ahead by blaming your problems on other people.
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#95. My sister played the piano. She's two years older than me, and I always wanted to play something. So my grandmother got the guitar for me, and showed me a couple of chords to start off. And then I got me a book. Next thing you know, I was playing along with sister.
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#96. You don't have to be poor to need something or somebody.
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#97. There are more old drunks than there are old doctors.
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#98. I would like to see more airplay for all artists, no matter what age. I think there's a lot of money being spent toward the young guys, but a lot of the older guys are the ones who blazed the trail for those young guys.
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#99. All my kids were raised on computers: They were home-schooled on the Internet, so they're pretty good at that stuff. And I'm proud of them, but I don't really keep up with it.
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#100. I think innately knew that music draws people together and that good music is liked by almost everybody.
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